Re: byte-compiler bug?

Katsumi> Hi, Katsumi> Please evaluate the following four Lisp forms one by one: Katsumi> (defun hello-world () Katsumi> "Hello World") Katsumi> (hello-world) Katsumi> (byte-compile 'hello-world) Katsumi> (hello-world) Katsumi> I got the string "Hello World" by the second form, but nil by Katsumi> the fourth form. I am at a loss for words... Hi Katsumi! I get the same in (emacs-version) "XEmacs 21.5 (beta14) \"cassava\" [Lucid] (i586-pc-win32, Mule) of Fri Jun 13 2003 on D5DC120J" (disassemble 'hello-world) leads this: This suggests the byte-compiler takes "Hello World" to be the docstring, leaving no body for the function. This of course is in contradiction with the spec arguments: (NAME ARGLIST [DOCSTRING] BODY...) where docstring is optional but body is not. Which is confirmed by (defun nada) leading Wrong number of arguments: defun, 1 I'd say this is a byte-compiler bug. -- Adrian Aichner mailto:adrian＠xemacs.org http://www.xemacs.org/